Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:48:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Andrew J. Bourke" <andrew.bourke@ACS-Mac-Server.Dentistry.Dal.CA> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding ports Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330144753.24859L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199803282055.QAA16554@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca>
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On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Andrew J. Bourke wrote: > (v2.2.5) > I got up and running, compiled the kernel, added myself as a user with > adduser - but now I can only install ports as root. If I am not logged in > as root, all the ftp attempts fail. Login as root and they install without > any problems... > > Is there a security issue here that may be causing this?? /usr/ports/distfiles is probably writable by root only. Change permissions as desired on distfiles and it should work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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